Word: shirking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...loans to England and France should not be canceled", declared Mr. Charles M. Schwab in a recent interview with a CRIMSON reporter. "I do not believe that the people of these countries want the loans cancelled, because they feel that there is a moral obligation involved which they cannot shirk. They realize that they owe us a debt that can never be paid, and that the least they can do is to return us our money...
...this is the outgrowth of a condition which disgraces popular government--the fact that the "bigger" men, those best qualified to judge cases involving business matters, are only to ready to shirk jury duty on the least excuse. Jury-dodging is one of the easiest things in the world; a plea if important business, physical weakness, or travel--excuses which the judge can scarcely question--are easy roads to freedom. But such evasion is sure to lead back to the slacker himself; if he refuses service himself, how can he expect a competent jury when his own case comes...
...This is peculiarly the function of our School, as it is the only school in the country where the college graduate may get his business training among men of like maturity in a university operating its business school solely as a graduate school. We can hardly shirk the responsibilities so presented and provision should be made at once for such growth in numbers as the situation may lead to. The school must be equipped with an adequate building and an enlarged staff...
...This is peculiarly the function of our School, as it is the only school in the country where the college graduate may get his business training among men of like maturity in a university operating its business school solely as a graduate school. We can hardly shirk the responsibilities so presented and provision should be made at once for such growth in numbers as the situation may lead to. The school must be equipped with an adequate building and an enlarged staff...
...Harvard to shirk in carrying its share of the national quota seems so preposterous as to be incredible. But to treble a week's work in one day is no easy task. It must be that two-thirds of the University are asleep to the condition of the drive; no one would willingly shirk his share of so deserving an appeal...